The Commonwealth of McBainis is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, enslaved workforce, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.426 billion McBainisians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stonks City. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient McBainisian economy, worth 765 trillion pps a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 141,044 pps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Lavish state dinners in Stonks City are the state's leading budgetary expenditure, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, theoretical science is only theoretical, and enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. McBainis's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

McBainis is ranked 89,042^nd in the world and 38^th in Thaecia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,325.86 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.